Faces of Courage, The Edelweiss Pirates Holocaust Teacher Resource Center. The Edelweiss Pirates. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it. The free, splendid beast of prey must once again flash from its eyes. That is how I will eradicate thousands of years of human domestication. That is how I will create the New Order. Adolph Hitler. Hitlers power may lay us low,And keep us locked in chains,But we will smash the chains one day,Well be free again. Weve got the fists and we can fight,Weve got the knives and well get them out. We want freedom, dont we boys Song of the Edelweiss Pirates Peukert, p. There were many young people in Nazi Germany who resisted the cruelties of the Nazi Youth and remained true to their own codes of moral conduct. The Edelweiss Pirates was one of the largest youth groups who refused to participate in Nazi youth activities. The police were not allowed to arrest members of the Hitler Youth Patrol Service, who were known for their brutality and bullying. Hitler Youth were guilty of many crimes, they broke shop windows, stole, and beat people on the streets. In one case, a group of Hitler Youth broke the windows of the home of a teacher who had given them low marks. The Nazi Youth Patrol raided movie houses, cabarets, billiard halls and coffee shops looking for the Edelweiss Pirates, who stood up to them and even fought with them on the streets of the cities of Dusseldorf, Essen, Cologne and other industrial cities in western Germany. The Edelweiss Pirates had different names in different cities, but they shared basic beliefs and attitudes. They were not deprived children or delinquents most were not even deliberate resistance fighters. They were simply the sons and daughters of working class parents who refused to be bullied into absolute obedience. Watch Flat Stanley Online Free here. 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Refusing to participate in Nazi Youth activities, they shared a strong sense of social identity and solidarity with one another. The groups of Edelweiss Pirates consisted of ten to fifteen boys, there were girls in some of the groups too. During the day they worked in factories and mills as unskilled workers and in the evenings and weekends they met together in cafes or in the parks. The high point of their activities together was the hikes they took into the countryside with rucksacks on their backs and their bread and butter rations. At night they slept in barns or tents. Sometimes they rode bicycles deep into the countryside ignoring the Nazi rules. Always on the watch for the dreaded Nazi Youth Patrols, they sometimes provoked street fights, but most of the time they avoided the Nazi Youth. As the war progressed, social chaos intensified, and many Pirates became active in the underground resistance movement. When the industrial cities were being bombed between 1. Edelweiss Pirates and the Nazi authorities intensified. Edelweiss Pirates in Cologne offered shelter to German army deserters, escaped prisoners from concentration camps, and escapees from forced. Groups of Edelweiss Pirates made armed raids on military depots and deliberately sabotaged war production. The Nazis were determined to suppress them. A Nazi official wrote, There is a suspicion that it is these youths who have been inscribing the walls of the pedestrian underground walkways in the Altenbergstrasse, a boulevard in the center of the city with the slogans Down with Hitler. The OKW Oberkommande des Wehrmacht is lying, Down with Nazi brutality. Nomatter how often the writings on the walls were scrubbed away, they were back again after a few days. Nazi patrols were constantly looking for members of the Pirates and those who were caught were imprisoned, sent to jails, reform schools, psychiatric hospitals, labor and concentration camps and many lost their lives. 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Captured Pirates had their heads shaven, were threatened and beaten, and often cruelly punished. A member of the Pirates was publicly executed by hanging in the center of the city of Cologne. The story of the Edelweiss Pirates is a story of courage and resistance.